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The news that Facebook experimented on 689,000 of its users without their knowledge has separated people into two camps. There are those that have shrugged their shoulders and said, as indeed the researchers…
In a move that has as many people puzzled as outraged, Facebook has published research that involved a deliberate attempt to manipulate the emotional state of 689,000 of its users. Experimenters from Facebook…
In an event that is sure to capture the world’s imagination and that has been proclaimed as setting a new milestone in the study of artificial intelligence, a computer programme has successfully passed…
As a parent of a child in education in Australia today, it would be hard not to notice the ever increasing role that technology is playing in their everyday learning. The former Labor Government’s Digital…
There is really no getting around the fact that staying secure on the Internet is hard, if not impossible, to achieve. Yes, users can do more to keep themselves safe by adopting good security practices…
Samsung has just released an updated version of its health software for the Samsung Galaxy S5 that measures stress levels. Using the heart rate sensor on the back of the phone, the S5 will calculate a…
Society’s mistrust of technology is deep-rooted. Fear of technology’s misuse has been exploited in popular horror and science fiction for hundreds of years. Mary Shelley’s monster Frankenstein for example…
Georgia Tech has become the first university to offer a Masters degree based on massive open online course (MOOC)-style courses in partnership with MOOC provider Udacity. Costing less than $7,000, the…
Visions of a cashless society started being portrayed from the 1950’s along with other aspects of a future waiting to be transformed by technology. That future has not yet arrived but it is now possible…
As first announced by the Financial Times it seems almost certain that Apple will buy premium headphone and audio company Beats for $3.2 billion. Apple was expected to announce the news next week but have…